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1 Dirham - Anatolian Imitation of Abu Sa`id Type C
| Issuer | Uncertain Anatolian beylik (Anatolian Beyliks) |
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| Year | 1320-1350 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham (0.7) |
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| Obverse lettering | ضرب في ايام السلطان الاعظم خلّد الله ملكه (Translation: Struck at the time of the Mighty Sultan Abu Sa`id - May God perpetuate his reign) |
| Reverse description | Central field contains a rectangular cartouche enclosing a multi-line Arabic Shahada inscription in Naskh script, naming the four Rightly Guided Caliphs of Islam below the profession of faith. The cartouche is framed by a decorative border, itself surrounded by a dotted outer rim. The flan is irregular in outline, characteristic of hammered silver coinage produced in Anatolian beylik mints during the early fourteenth century. The die style imitates Ilkhanid prototypes of the Abu Sa'id type but exhibits the cruder workmanship associated with peripheral local production. |
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Abu Sa'id was the last powerful Ilkhanid ruler, and his dirham types circulated so widely across Anatolia that local beyliks — many freshly independent after Mongol authority collapsed — began producing imitative strikes rather than establishing entirely new monetary designs. Album's B2221 designation groups several Anatolian workshops whose output mimics the Abu Sa'id prototype closely enough to pass in trade but diverges in die cutting quality and sometimes in the Arabic text itself, with legends occasionally garbled by engravers unfamiliar with the originals.
Attributing these to a specific beylik without additional epigraphic evidence remains genuinely difficult.